You’ve probably seen me around, talking a lot of shit about Argentines but, I’ve got to be honest, I’ve always wanted to visit the country. Call it being mentally colonized but as a person born and raised in the Hispanic world, I’ve always had a fascination with the two countries, despite the absolute shite reputation you all have with being chock full of racist, Nazi adjacent weirdos.

I’ve never been to South America and feel like I have to now that I have the free time. I’m completely fluent in Spanish, but I’m a brown, South Asian looking guy from Puerto Rico. Quite frankly, that’s been the source of deterrence for me and I apologize if I sound I hysterical. But I always like to keep an open mind, and if I can moderately survive a shithole such as Texas or Florida, it can’t be that bad…right?

Are there, any ‘left wing’ areas of, for example, Buenos Aires or Montevideo I should visit? Or any no go zones I should keep out of? Or any other under-appreciated cities I should go to?

  • doleoEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I have personal experience of both cities, but I lived in Montevideo. I think it’s more than a bit unfair to lump Uruguay in with Argentina, when it comes to politics. Of course, it’s far from perfect, but there have been a lot of positive things to come out of Uruguay in semi-recent history. Far, far less so in Argentina.

    To try and put your mind at ease, there are very few places as bad as Texas/Florida (in a political sense) in Montevideo. There’s a couple of barrios that you probably shouldn’t walk alone in, especially at night, but nothing that you probably haven’t already experienced in Puerto Rico.

    There might be some left-wing groups you could reach out to, if you want to hang out with some people, but in terms on neighbourhoods, nothing comes to mind in that sense. I’m out of touch with people there, so I don’t have any personal recommendations.

    • Lussy [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Thanks for the reply

      There’s a couple of barrios that you probably shouldn’t walk alone in, especially at night, but nothing that you probably haven’t already experienced in Puerto Rico.

      That’s not the kind of shithole I’m talking about. To say nothing of the nazis, I’m mostly talking about the kinds of places where you get harassed by intransigent, poorly cultured NIMBYS who act like thugs because someone dared look at their 10 trillion ton water wasting lawns.

      • doleoEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        lol - nah you’ll be fine in Montevideo, in that regard.

      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Montevideo and Buenos Aires are way less racist than Texas or any American state though. Racism is at least a crime in both Argentina and Uruguay (as for most of LatAm), unfortunely Argentina is ruled by that asshole ancap who is fucking everything up.